what are the levels of use made of the electronic resources offered by your library

what are the estimated cost savings fromt he use of these electronic resources

Assumptions:

value of staff time saved can be estimated

using only direct labor costs provides conservative estimates

value of the public’s time can also be estimated! conservative estimate for general public’s time is placed at $6 an hour, below minimum wage – so if patron uses library website for 10 minutes, that’s $1 in value.

levels of use measured by standard web metric packages is accurate

usage numbers are local numbers…

some search/time numbers are estimated… ie., time to search for phone calls is 15 minutes (so it’s a rough average)

Must know what we are counting: looks like they defined what a search was for each database they included in the count and equated that with a patron coming into the library, pulling out an index, and doing a search. That type of stuff…

aside … I’m sitting 15 feet from the screen, and I can’t read the slide! at least 15 points, with sub-points, in small font, all text… break that slide up!